Netflix had been flirting for quite some time with the idea of doing something to avoid sharing an account with other users. We refer to the profiles of users who do not reside at the same address. To share account, and expenses, with friends and family. A few days ago, in fact, he already published a series of conditions but now everything has been made official. If you have a shared Netflix account on your Xiaomi mobile, on your Xiaomi Mi Box S or on your Xiaomi TV, know that You have to go through the box.
Netflix’s idea to try to monetize this sharing of accounts also involves limiting them. This means that Netflix’s new changes include a limit on profiles that can be used outside of your usual home. A limit that is not very high. And to use those, you will have to pay. Six euros each, in fact. The fee for the main account, by the way, does not drop in price.
Sharing the Premium plan with two other users shoots up to 30 euros
Netflix introduces account sharing limits in its plans, and will charge for extra users
The idea of Netflix seems to happen because we can create profiles in our account, but that these profiles are used by those people who reside in our home. For a father, for a daughter, or for a roommate. And if we want to share an account with users who do not live with us, There will be limitations and you will have to pay an extra that will not be reduced. 6 euros per month. 5.99 euros, to be exact.
Netflix says that it is going to look at the main IP that our account connects from, and that accesses from other IPs will be considered “from outside the home”. It remains to be seen how they will consider mobile connection IPs, even when we use it ourselves, without having shared the key. They will be things that the streaming multinational will have to polish at some point in the near future.
Meanwhile, Netflix plans change from now. Spain enters the first list of countries where the restrictions apply, including Canada, New Zealand and Portugal. The limitations and prices will be the following:
- The basic plan with ads and the basic plan Netflix will not allow you to add extra subscribers. That is, they cannot be used from outside the habitual residence.
- The Standard plan will allow a single user from outside the habitual residence, at a monthly price of 5.99 euros for said user. In total, 19 euros per month sharing this user.
- The Premium Plan It will allow two users outside the habitual residence at 5.99 euros per month for each of them. They are added to the 17.99 euros of the plan. In total: 30 euros per month sharing both users.
The platform maintains tools such as the transfer of profiles to convert any shared user into a single account, or options to manage account access. But the limits to sharing are real. Go settling accounts with friends and family, because things are going to get very complicated from now on.
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